• LeTak@lemm.ee
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    Chrome was not always based on chromeium. Chrome was based on Apple WebKit until 2013 when they forked WebKit and made the Blink engine.

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      Chromium was still the base before the WebKit/Blink fork. Chrome and Chromium were released simultaneously in 2008.

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      Chromium has always existed. Originally it was wrapping web kit and later they forked web kit into blink and diverged from Web kit. Chromium is a level above the engine.

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      Wha- hold up… I’m not sure I understand…

      Chrome was based on WebKit?

      I’m not aware about the old stuff as much so if someone could fill me in…

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        WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.